Localities nationwide have mobilised resources and equipment to prevent and control the African Swine Fever (ASF) amidst the fast spread of the disease.
Vietnam’s TE-FOOD company on May 13 signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation with the Lao Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry’s Department of Livestock and Fisheries to build a herd management and information system for urgent epidemic prevention through smart phones, amidst the spreading African swine fever (ASF) in the region.
The People’s Committee of Nho Quan district of northern Ninh Binh province on May 3 announced that it has been free of African swine fever (ASF), becoming the second district of Ninh Binh to get rid of the virus.
African swine fever (ASF) posed a substantial threat to the pig farming industry although measures have been taken to stop the disease from spreading, said Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong at the first meeting of the national steering committee for the prevention and control of ASF in Hanoi on March 26.
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV)’s Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong and Russian President Vladimir Putin witnessed the signing of many cooperation agreements on September 6, within the framework of the former’s ongoing visit to Russia.
Students face several diseases at the beginning of the new school year, such as dengue fever, hand-foot-mouth disease, measles and flu, so epidemic prevention efforts should be strengthened, health experts warned.
Producing organic and safe agricultural products with hi-technological application is an inevitable trend in the context of international integration.
President Tran Dai Quang extended greetings to doctors, health workers of the health sector while attending a ceremony marking the 63rd anniversary of Vietnamese Doctors’ Day (February 27) held at Bach Mai Hospital in Hanoi on February 26.
Despite a recent sharp fall in the number of dengue cases, the community should not neglect preventive measures against the epidemics, warned the Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health.
Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Dung, head of the Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) ASEAN Vietnam, has co-chaired the 15th East Asia Forum in the Chinese province of Hunan from June 29 – July 1.
Central Da Nang city has launched a series of preventive measures to prevent the outbreaks of H7N9 avian influenza in the city.
The health sector of Hanoi has built a monitoring system for early detection of epidemics across the locality as part of efforts to improve the city’s capacity to prevent and control diseases.
Storm Dianmu, the third so far this year, has caused losses to the northern mainland of Vietnam after it made landfall on August 19 afternoon.
A team from the Ministry of Health on August 5 inspected dengue fever prevention efforts in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai, which is a hotbed of the mosquito-borne disease at present.
Nearly 900 cases of dengue fever have been reported in the Central Highlands of Vietnam from the beginning of 2016, up over 20 percent compared to the same period last year.
No cases of Zika fever have been reported in Vietnam so far, but there is a high risk that the virus may enter the country due to the presence of Aedes mosquitos which transmit the virus, and trade, t
The Pasteur Institute in Nha Trang, the central province of Khanh Hoa, was awarded the Independence Order, second class, during a ceremony celebrating its 120 th founding anniversary on December 19.
The Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) celebrated the 65th anniversary of its traditional day (November 17) in Hanoi on November 16.
